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Chicago examiner price one cent delivered by carrier rr\iv_c uiic v-clt i 30 casts per itfonth tuesday april 21 1908 14 pages vol vi no 104 a m hopkins threatens to join in revolt should sullivan aio bryan political partner declares roger c is an autocrat for promising to deliver plans rival delegation latest rebel to wait and see if boss uses gavel at springfield roger c snlllvan is threatened with an other bolt among the big and little machine bosses that call themselves the democratic party ' this time tit is his own political partner john p hopkins who is off the reservation and looking for trouble hopkins complnlnt is that sullivan does not represent the democratic party hopkins has been in europe so long that he still thinks there is a democratic party in Illinois but his objections are upon entirely different jnouiuls than those of the harrison-burke bolters hopkins declares sullivan is an autocrat because the boss is going to deliver the party to bryan harrison and burke call sullivan a train robber porch climber and other names of that sort because he sullivan is against bryan and there you are people who do not make politics n business can take their choice also tney can determine for themselves whether the democratic party represents the sentl nieut of the voters or if it represents any thing may have fingers crossed the public has for its consideration this further state of affairs sullivan of whom bryan said less than two years ago that he would not accept a delegation from him is fighting bis best friends to deliver a delegation to brsgfc people have a right to winder whetheftjpÃŸllvan would really regret a hopkins bolt very much he talks politics these says with his hands in his pockets so it is hard to tell whether he has his angers crossed the public can also look npon mr sulli van as a man with a regret his regret is for his own violation of his own politi cal maxim never says sullivan in advising his henchmen never say on the loth of november what you are going to do on the 4th of april the man who docs is either a liar or a fool conditions may 6witeh that is just what is wrong with sullivan now he promised on the 15th of novem ber to deliver the state to bryan on april 4 in effect that is a year and a half ago he gave it out that Illinois would be for bryan and he had his friends make cer tain arrangements with bryan he isn't quite sure he can make good and he is altogether sure he doesn't want to make good fears revolt at springfield there is therefore enough in hopkins threatened bolt to worry sullivan provided he hasn't got his fingers crossed the ma chine manager is afraid he is going to have trouble in making his henchmen play dead jump through and sit up and beg when he gets them to springfield for hopkins is not the only one off the reserva tion and what sullivan is now trying to figure ont is whether the hopkins indians are just ghost-dancing or if they have put on war paint and really mean it sullivan is more than a little afraid that he is to be forced to bring ont the gavel again when he gets to springfield and if the gavel is dug up it will be in bryan's behalf this time if the hopkins bolt ma terializes sullivan wonders if he will have to call on mr bryan to speak in favor of seating his delegation as mr bryan spoke against it four j-ears ago that would be an anomalous political situation that even sullivan lacks the nerve to face calmly gavel to be bolt signs hopkins does not propose to make his bolt until after the springfield convention then if the gavel is used he has announced his intention of running amuck he plans for a convention of the untrammeled democracy the latter is his phrase to distinguish his followers from the harri son-burke simonpure brand his scheros includes county conventions throughout the state a state convention and the in dorsement f the majority of the sullivan cational delegates then will be this big difference in the sullivan and the hopkins delegations how ever if hopkins makes good on his declar ation of intentions the sullivan men are to be instructed for bryan under the g&vel or otherwise while the hopkins men mostly the same individuals will lie unlnstrncted and there are those who believe the hopkins delegation might be seated temporarily by the national com mittee compelling bryan or some one in his stead to appear in behalf of sullivan whom bryan called a porch climber and train robber four years ago others ready to dance too there is a difference too between the harrison-burke bolt and the threatened hopkins bolt the larter would have some one to pay the freight hopkins would not have to settle all alone however john black hat mccarthy is already waver ing in his allegiance to sullivan and so is i jeorge f brennan johu mcglllen is an other who is ready to join hopkins for i either ghost dancing or the warpath and i billy legner is waitiug for the first warwhoop down the state there are more of the mother of frank gould's wife tries to arrange reconciliation meeting asks daughter to visit hot springs va where millionaire now is just a tiff she says new york april 20 mrs edward kelly mother of mrs frank j gould said to-day that she was making every pos sible effort to bring about a reconciliation between her daughter and mr gould the plans of mrs kelly and other friends of mrs gould who are ucting as peace makers is to bring about a meeting be tween mr and mrs gould on friday of this week this meeting will probably occur in new york although mrs gould has been urged by her mother to go more than half way in the way of reconciliation and go to hot springs va where mr gould is now staying mrs gould however be lieves that her husband should be the one to make all advances while the peace negotiations are under way mrs gould refuses to make any state ment the automobile in which she left the city sunday returned to-day it was said that mrs gould made a brief visit to her house but left the city again almost immediately mrs gould's mother speaking to-day of her daughter's domestic troubles is quoted as having said the whole affair is only a tiff with out doubt the trouble between mr and mrs gould will be settled within a few days if everyone will attend to his own business we are trying to get mrs gould to go down to hot springs and see her hus band if she gets there and out of the new york atmosphere i believe the trouble j will quickly blow over i the children will be a great factor in i bringing husband and wife together i am not convinced that any suit has really been begun looking to a separation johnson leads in straw vote by iroquois club twenty-two for him as democratic nominee nine for bryan an iroqnois club member inst saturday sent 200 return postal cards to other mem bers who are residents in Illinois with the following statement a number of remocrats of Chicago and vicinity are being asked to indicate their preference for the democratic nominee for president would you kindly place a cross opposite the candidate of your choice on re turn postal card and sign same or not as you prefer up to yesterday afternoon thirty-five re plies had been received as follows johnson 22 bryan 9 gray 2 douglas 1 chandler 1 the thirty-fifth ballot was cast by j ham lewis who turned in a spoiled ballot guatemala president hurt by bombs lives loses a finger as result of attack by assassins new york april 20 another attempt was made to-day to kill president estrada cabrera of guatemala in guatemala city the capital dr ramon bengoecha guate malean counsel general in this country re ceived a cable dispatch telling the follow ing story as president manuel estrada cabrera was entering the palace to receive in pub lic audience william heinke the united states minister there occurred a series of explosions fortunately his excellency es caped with only the loss of a finger com plete order and tranquility prevails in all the country japs send fleet south as menace to chinese aim to check boycott seen in squad ron's visit to colonies shanghai april 20 a japanese squad ron including the most powerful battle ships five armored cruisers and several de stroyers in all fifteen ships will proceed to southern chinese waters visiting foo chow amoy and canton ostensibly for a friendly visit but it is believed in reality to impress the chinese and check the anti japanese boycott the japanese colonies in the different ports are preparing elaborate receptions alice l webb indicted the grand jury yesterday returned an indictment against alice l webb former wife of brodie l duke the millionaire tobacco man she is charged with operating a confidence game by passing worthless checks on the great northern hotel thaw starts a lone fight for liberty scorning family retains attorney and will sign application for reiease from asylum to-day evelyn anxious to flee she and prisoner's mother will aid jerome to keep him confined new york april 20 under direct orders from harry kendall thaw counsel for the young millionaire took the first i step to-day in the legal proceedings which will seek to hnve him declared sane and released from the new york state asylum for the criminal lusaue m matteawan where he is confined for the murder m june 1006 of stanford white james g graham of newburg who ha 3 been retained by thaw made application to justice morschanÃŸer of the supreme ' court m white phillies for an order direct , ing acting superintendent baker of the matteawan asylum to permit thaw to sign \ a formal application for a writ of habeas ' corpus justice morschauser promptly granted the i application which will he submitted to thaw to-morrow for his signature thaw fights whole family the action marks the beginning of a sensational and bitter fight with the slayer i of stanford white fighting alone for his â– liberty while arrayed against him are hi wife his family and all of the power o district attorney jerome's office in his determination to make an effort to regain his liberty at this time thaw has antagonized all of the interests which were formerly m his favor the step was taken directly against the wishes and advice of his mother her personal attorney col onel franklin bartlett was not consulted m the matter all of the legal proceeding being under the direction of mr graham ! who was retained by a russell peabody thaw's personal counsel the direct cause of the filing of the pe tition at . this time is said to be thaw's determination to fight his wife's suit for divorce mrs kvelyn thaw it is known has been most anxious that her suit for annulment of her marriage be conducted with the utmost possible speed as she was anxious to be securely hidden m some place distant from new york when he was leleased mother wishes him confined i mrs william thaw and her family have been content that harry should remain a > prisoner m matteawan for an indehite period it is said that she hi madu plans to spend the summer m europe with e her daughter the former countess of yar i mouth and that she strenuously opposed . any action at this time which would have as its object the release of her sou thaw - has bitterly resented what he terms the - desertion on the part of his family and has been urging attorney peabody for weeks 1 past to begin legal proceedings to secure - his release ever since the papers m the 1 suit of his wife have been served he has f assumed a most belligerent attitude and - there have been several violent scenes ill - the hospital when his attorneys called to 1 see him jerome plans big fight all of the resources at the disposal of the district attorney's office will be used to : keep white's slayer m matteawan dis trict attorney jerome announced to-night i that both he and assistant district attor ney garvau would go to white plains to contest the application ii justice mor schauser granted the writ of habeas cor i pus thaw's condition is sutd to have become ' worse since his coiitinement m the asylum '" he has been examined three times by the d state lunacy commission the last examlna o tiou having taken place several weeks ago iv view of the fact that they have made a no recommendations concerning him it s y not believed that the hospital authorities [. believe him sane superintendent baker said to-night that n the prisoner had been greatly depressed c lately and that he had not noticed any change for the better m his mental condi tion he has gained eighteen pounds m weight since his arrival m the asylum thaw has been confined m matteawan foi n two months and nineteen days r he was taken there on the night the ver diet m his case had been reached sinet ills incarceration his wife sued hin g for the annulment of his marriage and his s favorite sister alice has had her marriage to the earl of yarmouth annulled Chicago elopers in telephone plea help us marry man phones examiner from t indianapolis says girl lives on wilson avenue refuses to give names correspondent finds frank g fuller and miss e green at hotel there br-r-r ting-a-ling went the telephone bell on the city editor's desk m the examiner local room last night hello well hello responded the editor ns he blue-penciled some copy with one hand held the receiver with the other and looked angry say came a voice over the line this is a friend of yours i'm m indianapolis at the claypool hotel and i'm m an awful fix who are you and what is the fix barked the editor i'm trying to get married and i can't the editor was interested when people try to get married and can't that makes news what's the trouble he asked can't get married well you see i came here with a young lady a nice young lady in fact she is my fiancee we expected to get married i here right away but when i asked for a | license they told me that a new law was ! passed and that we can't get a license ; unless we've lived m the county four days i so here we are at this hotel and i'm sure the girl's folks are worried crazy and and iwe can't get married after all say what i can i do be a good fellow and tell me what's your name asked the editor j trying to make his voice kind and sym pathetic no you don't i used to he a news ! paper man l'm one now thci h not on a j daily l'ou can't work me i u looking | j for information not giving it well what's the girl's name then j she lives on 3mm avenue go on smnrty sue lives on wilson avenue and slip's a awe l . i'll give you the names and the pictures and everything wken well wlvu her name and my name are the same oh come on give me the name let me cheer up the worried loved ones pleaded the editor drop that i'm serious what can i do you might catch an interurban for de catur 111 you don't need to wait for a license there but there was a click and a snap and the connection broke editor's note â€” the examiner telegraphed its indianapolis correspondent the meaner facts m liand shortly after midnight an answer was re ceived which follows m its origina form report from indianapc'ls indianapolis ind april 20 1f frank g fuller and miss g green both of chi cago are not elopers they had all the ' pleasure or pain whichever it may be of i being so considered at the claypool hotel here to-night mr fuller is advertising manager of a financial journal of Chicago called bonds and mortgages according to his business card the couple appeared at the hotel about 9 o'clock this evening and mr fuller wrote the names frank g fuller and miss e green Chicago on the hotel register not long afterward fuller began to get busy with time tables and asked about trains to a number of points including cin 1 cinnati ohio and peoria explaining that he wanted to go to one or the other to i morrow sometime fuller had no sooner got his information i than newspaper men began to get busy â€¢ and fuller became somewhat unea:Â»y ' when questioned directly as to being on ; marriage bent he pleaded not guilty his 1 denial was not of the vociferous sort that might be expected were the information i incorrect fuller persisted that he was not the man wanted and was then asked to explain - about the young woman who was with 'â– him j she's my assistant he said she : travels with me when i am on the road to help me with my work â€¢ miss green could not be dislodged from her room to confirm or deny mr fuller's statement and fuller did not suggest hav \ i ing her do so patrolman leads shippy in pension election count of ballots will not be com pleted until to-day after several hours of frenzied counting of the ballots for trustee on the police pension board it was announced late last night that the result would not be known until to-day although the count showed the opposing candidates with almost an equal number of votes it was reported that chief of police shippy was running heavily behind in the returns from the outlying precincts his opponent is hugh ward a patrolman of the irving park station the present in cumbent shippy made a remarkable race for the place and is said to have used the influence of his high office to force his election these tactics were not appreciated by many of the policemen who maintain that the legislative act organizing the board contemplates that a man in the ranks and not a commanding officer shall represent his fellows un the board wheeler bart hum was not opposed in running for re election to the pensioners cost on the board fifi potter's 30 hats in 30 days startle paris young mrs stillm&ji refuses to come home at request of husband her actions eccentric buys faster bonnets by dozen then wears a kerchief on her head $ special cable to the examiner paris april 20 the eccentricities and extravagances of young mrs stillmau formerly flfi potter daughter of mrs james brown potter have seriously alarmed her friends and as a result of a family council her husband arrived in i'aris a few days ago and is using all his influence to persuade her to return to the united states mrs stillmau informed her friends that she will not give up paris no matter what happens she occupies the house of james stillmau her father-in-law in the rue murillo for which she has made large purchases of furniture and paintings at reckless prices during the last mouth she has spent 50,000 for house linen alone spends 18,000 for hats during the same period she bought thirty hats at 0o each saying 1 want one for each day so far however she has worn none of the hats as the only headdress she wears is a crimson handkerchief tied over her hair for out of doors while in the house she wears wreaths of artificial flowers she gave a tea in her home recently at which she received her friends in a short dress not reaching to her knees made of frilled silk and a kimoua jacket invents auto costume . a fortnight ago mrs stillman went to switzerland alone on an automobile trip for this excursion she invented a special costume a shirt and leather skirt reach ing just to the knees with leather leggings on her head she wore the famous scarlet kerchief in this suit she entered the hotels and restaurants en route startling the guests and proprietors upon leaving her chauffeur who waited by the door enveloped her in a long autofcobile cloak mrs stillman brought the dress back to paris and wore it in a number of fashion able afternoon receptions she said it is so becoming i can't resist it her friends say all this is only her way bnt hope she will consent to return to the united states with her husband american girl who clings to gay paris which she startles by her eccen tricities and lavish spending roosevelt scoffs at eliot of harvard urges students to defy uni versity president's ban on strenuous athletics washington april 20 â€” president roosevelt does not approve of the abandon ment or subordination of athletics in the universities colleges and seats of learning of the country he believes in the develop ment of the muscles coincident with the development of the brain he wants no mollycoddles weak and flabby-muscled men find little favor with him these points he emphasized to a party of tweuty students from princeton who called to pay their respects to him to-day the boys were introduced by representa tive ira w wood of trenton n j they are members of a baseball team which played and defeated georgetown univer sity shortly after the interview with the president the president urged the boys to put their hearts in their game and play to win he criticised the action of president eliot of harvard the president's alma mater in his attempt to put athletics in the rear the president expressed himself as of the opinion that this policy would injure har vard quentin who is twelve years old is nccordiug to the president a baseball player the president laughingly told of watching quentin play a game of ball on the white house lot last saturday and saw him make a fumble representative wood took his guests to call on speaker cannon the boys were much impressed by the speaker who told them how much they should appreciate the advantages of a col legiate education he said that he hal al ways regretted that he had been deprived of such an education he remarked that he bad been educated in the sage brush college judge rescues woman as a train speeds by big crowd cheers when jurist risks his own life sterling 111 april 20 risking his own life judge irving l weaver to-day leaped in front of a fast passenger train and dragged miss elva marschang to safety as the ougiue rushed by the woman had fallen and was helpless as her body was wedged between two ties a large crowd witnessed the de and warmly cheered the rescuer i . fire cures auto habit as william buueiie watched the destruc tion of his private garage at :!."> ewiiig street m which two tourius cars vufv ruiued by tire he vowed lie woul'i ho#j alter rise liorses ana carriages m looters to escape trial grand jury fails to indict but makes a strong pre sentment ryan's silence broken financier follows jury's report with statement of trac tion deals ferries juggle a loan grand jury m reply will give out minutes of all the testimony new york april 20 tboma^j f ryan broke an almost life long silence to-night to make a defense of himself and his associates m the traction trust of new york the statement followed a present ment from the grand jury that has had the alleged traction crimes under investigation m which the jury re ports no indictments of metropolitan officials and assigns as a reason for this failure the inability to discover any evidence against the alleged of fenders taken together the ryan statement and the grand jury presentment are two of the most remarkable docu ments that have emanated from high sources since the methods of frenzied finance were first brought und?r tlie limelight wants testimony published the grand jury for instance though a it finds no indictments has taken suf ficient note of public opinici to reem ommend to justice dowling of the su^b preme court the publication of the " testimony taken during the several months that it has considered metro i i politan affairs to this proposal jus jtice dowling has given an assent and jail of the testimony taken by the ' grand jury will be made available to the public to-morrow this is the first time m the history ci the grand jury that such a step he - been aken in the statement mr ryan j;ive out to night u 1 attempts to explain away the wall and corttmjdt street fibres deal as a simple loai v^ransaction n which ryan whitney dolaÃŸj^vitfeift and elkins ad r.mccd each sioo.oou to cov :: c.v nenditures t h had been maile for tbv benefit of the property , { ryan stones differ fluu , hie abstract i testimony . mr ryai before uie grand jury tÂ£^j r absolutely different story there mr.^h i coi.vi'yi'd the idea that this s3ot^b i which hna set the eminent flnancier^h i wall street at odds ns donated h â– political contribution the public is left to judge which sih t is true t here is ryan's explanation made i s night fl s as to this transaction fhe jh ; truth is that several hundred thousand 1 lars had been advanced by messrs wdh 1 rey ryan dolan widener and elkins â– cover expenditures which had been niad^j for the benetit of the property tlwh 111,000 paid to each of them m conneejÃŸ tion with the wall and cortland street purchase was the precise amount with m [ terest which each had advanced 3 sir ryan fails to specify the nature ol r the expenditures made and the benefits b which were expected to be derived fr*i them * t mr ryan also fails to specify whiel Â£ company's property was to be benefited f it is a fact that the metropolitan se curities company repaid these advances re ferred to by mr kyan yet the advances wore made two years before the metropoll 0 tan securities company was organized ii i follows therefore that the metropolitan 1 securities company having been formed i of several companies the money of tnese . several companies was used to discharge t the obligation of an individual company c accepting mr ryan's statement as accu % rate s if this money was paid out for the ben . efit of the property of a company why :â€¢ was such a discharged liability carried oflfl 3 the books as an asset â– why too was the expenditure entered on the books o the metropolitan securities â€¢ company as the purchase price of tneh 3 wall and cortland streets ferries fl when all but 250,000 of the 965,000 wenth into the pockets of the participants m tn - deal ; what is mr ryan's explanation of bis - action m voting to approve the purchase " of the railway for 800,000 ftvhen he knew a i continued on 2d page 4th column i weather indications ii(m Chicago and vicinity â€” in fi ht creasing cloudiness tuesday prob \\ ably showers at night or wednes v.w day rising temperature winds shift lent is over s |[ w i and the competent worker out of em ployment will now lend additional en ergy to his efforts to land a position this can best be accomplished by the use of an examiner situ ation wanted ad and the services of the examiner em ployment exchange if you are a competent 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Chicago examiner price one cent delivered by carrier rr\iv_c uiic v-clt i 30 casts per itfonth tuesday april 21 1908 14 pages vol vi no 104 a m hopkins threatens to join in revolt should sullivan aio bryan political partner declares roger c is an autocrat for promising to deliver plans rival delegation latest rebel to wait and see if boss uses gavel at springfield roger c snlllvan is threatened with an other bolt among the big and little machine bosses that call themselves the democratic party ' this time tit is his own political partner john p hopkins who is off the reservation and looking for trouble hopkins complnlnt is that sullivan does not represent the democratic party hopkins has been in europe so long that he still thinks there is a democratic party in Illinois but his objections are upon entirely different jnouiuls than those of the harrison-burke bolters hopkins declares sullivan is an autocrat because the boss is going to deliver the party to bryan harrison and burke call sullivan a train robber porch climber and other names of that sort because he sullivan is against bryan and there you are people who do not make politics n business can take their choice also tney can determine for themselves whether the democratic party represents the sentl nieut of the voters or if it represents any thing may have fingers crossed the public has for its consideration this further state of affairs sullivan of whom bryan said less than two years ago that he would not accept a delegation from him is fighting bis best friends to deliver a delegation to brsgfc people have a right to winder whetheftjpÃŸllvan would really regret a hopkins bolt very much he talks politics these says with his hands in his pockets so it is hard to tell whether he has his angers crossed the public can also look npon mr sulli van as a man with a regret his regret is for his own violation of his own politi cal maxim never says sullivan in advising his henchmen never say on the loth of november what you are going to do on the 4th of april the man who docs is either a liar or a fool conditions may 6witeh that is just what is wrong with sullivan now he promised on the 15th of novem ber to deliver the state to bryan on april 4 in effect that is a year and a half ago he gave it out that Illinois would be for bryan and he had his friends make cer tain arrangements with bryan he isn't quite sure he can make good and he is altogether sure he doesn't want to make good fears revolt at springfield there is therefore enough in hopkins threatened bolt to worry sullivan provided he hasn't got his fingers crossed the ma chine manager is afraid he is going to have trouble in making his henchmen play dead jump through and sit up and beg when he gets them to springfield for hopkins is not the only one off the reserva tion and what sullivan is now trying to figure ont is whether the hopkins indians are just ghost-dancing or if they have put on war paint and really mean it sullivan is more than a little afraid that he is to be forced to bring ont the gavel again when he gets to springfield and if the gavel is dug up it will be in bryan's behalf this time if the hopkins bolt ma terializes sullivan wonders if he will have to call on mr bryan to speak in favor of seating his delegation as mr bryan spoke against it four j-ears ago that would be an anomalous political situation that even sullivan lacks the nerve to face calmly gavel to be bolt signs hopkins does not propose to make his bolt until after the springfield convention then if the gavel is used he has announced his intention of running amuck he plans for a convention of the untrammeled democracy the latter is his phrase to distinguish his followers from the harri son-burke simonpure brand his scheros includes county conventions throughout the state a state convention and the in dorsement f the majority of the sullivan cational delegates then will be this big difference in the sullivan and the hopkins delegations how ever if hopkins makes good on his declar ation of intentions the sullivan men are to be instructed for bryan under the g&vel or otherwise while the hopkins men mostly the same individuals will lie unlnstrncted and there are those who believe the hopkins delegation might be seated temporarily by the national com mittee compelling bryan or some one in his stead to appear in behalf of sullivan whom bryan called a porch climber and train robber four years ago others ready to dance too there is a difference too between the harrison-burke bolt and the threatened hopkins bolt the larter would have some one to pay the freight hopkins would not have to settle all alone however john black hat mccarthy is already waver ing in his allegiance to sullivan and so is i jeorge f brennan johu mcglllen is an other who is ready to join hopkins for i either ghost dancing or the warpath and i billy legner is waitiug for the first warwhoop down the state there are more of the mother of frank gould's wife tries to arrange reconciliation meeting asks daughter to visit hot springs va where millionaire now is just a tiff she says new york april 20 mrs edward kelly mother of mrs frank j gould said to-day that she was making every pos sible effort to bring about a reconciliation between her daughter and mr gould the plans of mrs kelly and other friends of mrs gould who are ucting as peace makers is to bring about a meeting be tween mr and mrs gould on friday of this week this meeting will probably occur in new york although mrs gould has been urged by her mother to go more than half way in the way of reconciliation and go to hot springs va where mr gould is now staying mrs gould however be lieves that her husband should be the one to make all advances while the peace negotiations are under way mrs gould refuses to make any state ment the automobile in which she left the city sunday returned to-day it was said that mrs gould made a brief visit to her house but left the city again almost immediately mrs gould's mother speaking to-day of her daughter's domestic troubles is quoted as having said the whole affair is only a tiff with out doubt the trouble between mr and mrs gould will be settled within a few days if everyone will attend to his own business we are trying to get mrs gould to go down to hot springs and see her hus band if she gets there and out of the new york atmosphere i believe the trouble j will quickly blow over i the children will be a great factor in i bringing husband and wife together i am not convinced that any suit has really been begun looking to a separation johnson leads in straw vote by iroquois club twenty-two for him as democratic nominee nine for bryan an iroqnois club member inst saturday sent 200 return postal cards to other mem bers who are residents in Illinois with the following statement a number of remocrats of Chicago and vicinity are being asked to indicate their preference for the democratic nominee for president would you kindly place a cross opposite the candidate of your choice on re turn postal card and sign same or not as you prefer up to yesterday afternoon thirty-five re plies had been received as follows johnson 22 bryan 9 gray 2 douglas 1 chandler 1 the thirty-fifth ballot was cast by j ham lewis who turned in a spoiled ballot guatemala president hurt by bombs lives loses a finger as result of attack by assassins new york april 20 another attempt was made to-day to kill president estrada cabrera of guatemala in guatemala city the capital dr ramon bengoecha guate malean counsel general in this country re ceived a cable dispatch telling the follow ing story as president manuel estrada cabrera was entering the palace to receive in pub lic audience william heinke the united states minister there occurred a series of explosions fortunately his excellency es caped with only the loss of a finger com plete order and tranquility prevails in all the country japs send fleet south as menace to chinese aim to check boycott seen in squad ron's visit to colonies shanghai april 20 a japanese squad ron including the most powerful battle ships five armored cruisers and several de stroyers in all fifteen ships will proceed to southern chinese waters visiting foo chow amoy and canton ostensibly for a friendly visit but it is believed in reality to impress the chinese and check the anti japanese boycott the japanese colonies in the different ports are preparing elaborate receptions alice l webb indicted the grand jury yesterday returned an indictment against alice l webb former wife of brodie l duke the millionaire tobacco man she is charged with operating a confidence game by passing worthless checks on the great northern hotel thaw starts a lone fight for liberty scorning family retains attorney and will sign application for reiease from asylum to-day evelyn anxious to flee she and prisoner's mother will aid jerome to keep him confined new york april 20 under direct orders from harry kendall thaw counsel for the young millionaire took the first i step to-day in the legal proceedings which will seek to hnve him declared sane and released from the new york state asylum for the criminal lusaue m matteawan where he is confined for the murder m june 1006 of stanford white james g graham of newburg who ha 3 been retained by thaw made application to justice morschanÃŸer of the supreme ' court m white phillies for an order direct , ing acting superintendent baker of the matteawan asylum to permit thaw to sign \ a formal application for a writ of habeas ' corpus justice morschauser promptly granted the i application which will he submitted to thaw to-morrow for his signature thaw fights whole family the action marks the beginning of a sensational and bitter fight with the slayer i of stanford white fighting alone for his â– liberty while arrayed against him are hi wife his family and all of the power o district attorney jerome's office in his determination to make an effort to regain his liberty at this time thaw has antagonized all of the interests which were formerly m his favor the step was taken directly against the wishes and advice of his mother her personal attorney col onel franklin bartlett was not consulted m the matter all of the legal proceeding being under the direction of mr graham ! who was retained by a russell peabody thaw's personal counsel the direct cause of the filing of the pe tition at . this time is said to be thaw's determination to fight his wife's suit for divorce mrs kvelyn thaw it is known has been most anxious that her suit for annulment of her marriage be conducted with the utmost possible speed as she was anxious to be securely hidden m some place distant from new york when he was leleased mother wishes him confined i mrs william thaw and her family have been content that harry should remain a > prisoner m matteawan for an indehite period it is said that she hi madu plans to spend the summer m europe with e her daughter the former countess of yar i mouth and that she strenuously opposed . any action at this time which would have as its object the release of her sou thaw - has bitterly resented what he terms the - desertion on the part of his family and has been urging attorney peabody for weeks 1 past to begin legal proceedings to secure - his release ever since the papers m the 1 suit of his wife have been served he has f assumed a most belligerent attitude and - there have been several violent scenes ill - the hospital when his attorneys called to 1 see him jerome plans big fight all of the resources at the disposal of the district attorney's office will be used to : keep white's slayer m matteawan dis trict attorney jerome announced to-night i that both he and assistant district attor ney garvau would go to white plains to contest the application ii justice mor schauser granted the writ of habeas cor i pus thaw's condition is sutd to have become ' worse since his coiitinement m the asylum '" he has been examined three times by the d state lunacy commission the last examlna o tiou having taken place several weeks ago iv view of the fact that they have made a no recommendations concerning him it s y not believed that the hospital authorities [. believe him sane superintendent baker said to-night that n the prisoner had been greatly depressed c lately and that he had not noticed any change for the better m his mental condi tion he has gained eighteen pounds m weight since his arrival m the asylum thaw has been confined m matteawan foi n two months and nineteen days r he was taken there on the night the ver diet m his case had been reached sinet ills incarceration his wife sued hin g for the annulment of his marriage and his s favorite sister alice has had her marriage to the earl of yarmouth annulled Chicago elopers in telephone plea help us marry man phones examiner from t indianapolis says girl lives on wilson avenue refuses to give names correspondent finds frank g fuller and miss e green at hotel there br-r-r ting-a-ling went the telephone bell on the city editor's desk m the examiner local room last night hello well hello responded the editor ns he blue-penciled some copy with one hand held the receiver with the other and looked angry say came a voice over the line this is a friend of yours i'm m indianapolis at the claypool hotel and i'm m an awful fix who are you and what is the fix barked the editor i'm trying to get married and i can't the editor was interested when people try to get married and can't that makes news what's the trouble he asked can't get married well you see i came here with a young lady a nice young lady in fact she is my fiancee we expected to get married i here right away but when i asked for a | license they told me that a new law was ! passed and that we can't get a license ; unless we've lived m the county four days i so here we are at this hotel and i'm sure the girl's folks are worried crazy and and iwe can't get married after all say what i can i do be a good fellow and tell me what's your name asked the editor j trying to make his voice kind and sym pathetic no you don't i used to he a news ! paper man l'm one now thci h not on a j daily l'ou can't work me i u looking | j for information not giving it well what's the girl's name then j she lives on 3mm avenue go on smnrty sue lives on wilson avenue and slip's a awe l . i'll give you the names and the pictures and everything wken well wlvu her name and my name are the same oh come on give me the name let me cheer up the worried loved ones pleaded the editor drop that i'm serious what can i do you might catch an interurban for de catur 111 you don't need to wait for a license there but there was a click and a snap and the connection broke editor's note â€” the examiner telegraphed its indianapolis correspondent the meaner facts m liand shortly after midnight an answer was re ceived which follows m its origina form report from indianapc'ls indianapolis ind april 20 1f frank g fuller and miss g green both of chi cago are not elopers they had all the ' pleasure or pain whichever it may be of i being so considered at the claypool hotel here to-night mr fuller is advertising manager of a financial journal of Chicago called bonds and mortgages according to his business card the couple appeared at the hotel about 9 o'clock this evening and mr fuller wrote the names frank g fuller and miss e green Chicago on the hotel register not long afterward fuller began to get busy with time tables and asked about trains to a number of points including cin 1 cinnati ohio and peoria explaining that he wanted to go to one or the other to i morrow sometime fuller had no sooner got his information i than newspaper men began to get busy â€¢ and fuller became somewhat unea:Â»y ' when questioned directly as to being on ; marriage bent he pleaded not guilty his 1 denial was not of the vociferous sort that might be expected were the information i incorrect fuller persisted that he was not the man wanted and was then asked to explain - about the young woman who was with 'â– him j she's my assistant he said she : travels with me when i am on the road to help me with my work â€¢ miss green could not be dislodged from her room to confirm or deny mr fuller's statement and fuller did not suggest hav \ i ing her do so patrolman leads shippy in pension election count of ballots will not be com pleted until to-day after several hours of frenzied counting of the ballots for trustee on the police pension board it was announced late last night that the result would not be known until to-day although the count showed the opposing candidates with almost an equal number of votes it was reported that chief of police shippy was running heavily behind in the returns from the outlying precincts his opponent is hugh ward a patrolman of the irving park station the present in cumbent shippy made a remarkable race for the place and is said to have used the influence of his high office to force his election these tactics were not appreciated by many of the policemen who maintain that the legislative act organizing the board contemplates that a man in the ranks and not a commanding officer shall represent his fellows un the board wheeler bart hum was not opposed in running for re election to the pensioners cost on the board fifi potter's 30 hats in 30 days startle paris young mrs stillm&ji refuses to come home at request of husband her actions eccentric buys faster bonnets by dozen then wears a kerchief on her head $ special cable to the examiner paris april 20 the eccentricities and extravagances of young mrs stillmau formerly flfi potter daughter of mrs james brown potter have seriously alarmed her friends and as a result of a family council her husband arrived in i'aris a few days ago and is using all his influence to persuade her to return to the united states mrs stillmau informed her friends that she will not give up paris no matter what happens she occupies the house of james stillmau her father-in-law in the rue murillo for which she has made large purchases of furniture and paintings at reckless prices during the last mouth she has spent 50,000 for house linen alone spends 18,000 for hats during the same period she bought thirty hats at 0o each saying 1 want one for each day so far however she has worn none of the hats as the only headdress she wears is a crimson handkerchief tied over her hair for out of doors while in the house she wears wreaths of artificial flowers she gave a tea in her home recently at which she received her friends in a short dress not reaching to her knees made of frilled silk and a kimoua jacket invents auto costume . a fortnight ago mrs stillman went to switzerland alone on an automobile trip for this excursion she invented a special costume a shirt and leather skirt reach ing just to the knees with leather leggings on her head she wore the famous scarlet kerchief in this suit she entered the hotels and restaurants en route startling the guests and proprietors upon leaving her chauffeur who waited by the door enveloped her in a long autofcobile cloak mrs stillman brought the dress back to paris and wore it in a number of fashion able afternoon receptions she said it is so becoming i can't resist it her friends say all this is only her way bnt hope she will consent to return to the united states with her husband american girl who clings to gay paris which she startles by her eccen tricities and lavish spending roosevelt scoffs at eliot of harvard urges students to defy uni versity president's ban on strenuous athletics washington april 20 â€” president roosevelt does not approve of the abandon ment or subordination of athletics in the universities colleges and seats of learning of the country he believes in the develop ment of the muscles coincident with the development of the brain he wants no mollycoddles weak and flabby-muscled men find little favor with him these points he emphasized to a party of tweuty students from princeton who called to pay their respects to him to-day the boys were introduced by representa tive ira w wood of trenton n j they are members of a baseball team which played and defeated georgetown univer sity shortly after the interview with the president the president urged the boys to put their hearts in their game and play to win he criticised the action of president eliot of harvard the president's alma mater in his attempt to put athletics in the rear the president expressed himself as of the opinion that this policy would injure har vard quentin who is twelve years old is nccordiug to the president a baseball player the president laughingly told of watching quentin play a game of ball on the white house lot last saturday and saw him make a fumble representative wood took his guests to call on speaker cannon the boys were much impressed by the speaker who told them how much they should appreciate the advantages of a col legiate education he said that he hal al ways regretted that he had been deprived of such an education he remarked that he bad been educated in the sage brush college judge rescues woman as a train speeds by big crowd cheers when jurist risks his own life sterling 111 april 20 risking his own life judge irving l weaver to-day leaped in front of a fast passenger train and dragged miss elva marschang to safety as the ougiue rushed by the woman had fallen and was helpless as her body was wedged between two ties a large crowd witnessed the de and warmly cheered the rescuer i . fire cures auto habit as william buueiie watched the destruc tion of his private garage at :!."> ewiiig street m which two tourius cars vufv ruiued by tire he vowed lie woul'i ho#j alter rise liorses ana carriages m looters to escape trial grand jury fails to indict but makes a strong pre sentment ryan's silence broken financier follows jury's report with statement of trac tion deals ferries juggle a loan grand jury m reply will give out minutes of all the testimony new york april 20 tboma^j f ryan broke an almost life long silence to-night to make a defense of himself and his associates m the traction trust of new york the statement followed a present ment from the grand jury that has had the alleged traction crimes under investigation m which the jury re ports no indictments of metropolitan officials and assigns as a reason for this failure the inability to discover any evidence against the alleged of fenders taken together the ryan statement and the grand jury presentment are two of the most remarkable docu ments that have emanated from high sources since the methods of frenzied finance were first brought und?r tlie limelight wants testimony published the grand jury for instance though a it finds no indictments has taken suf ficient note of public opinici to reem ommend to justice dowling of the su^b preme court the publication of the " testimony taken during the several months that it has considered metro i i politan affairs to this proposal jus jtice dowling has given an assent and jail of the testimony taken by the ' grand jury will be made available to the public to-morrow this is the first time m the history ci the grand jury that such a step he - been aken in the statement mr ryan j;ive out to night u 1 attempts to explain away the wall and corttmjdt street fibres deal as a simple loai v^ransaction n which ryan whitney dolaÃŸj^vitfeift and elkins ad r.mccd each sioo.oou to cov :: c.v nenditures t h had been maile for tbv benefit of the property , { ryan stones differ fluu , hie abstract i testimony . mr ryai before uie grand jury tÂ£^j r absolutely different story there mr.^h i coi.vi'yi'd the idea that this s3ot^b i which hna set the eminent flnancier^h i wall street at odds ns donated h â– political contribution the public is left to judge which sih t is true t here is ryan's explanation made i s night fl s as to this transaction fhe jh ; truth is that several hundred thousand 1 lars had been advanced by messrs wdh 1 rey ryan dolan widener and elkins â– cover expenditures which had been niad^j for the benetit of the property tlwh 111,000 paid to each of them m conneejÃŸ tion with the wall and cortland street purchase was the precise amount with m [ terest which each had advanced 3 sir ryan fails to specify the nature ol r the expenditures made and the benefits b which were expected to be derived fr*i them * t mr ryan also fails to specify whiel Â£ company's property was to be benefited f it is a fact that the metropolitan se curities company repaid these advances re ferred to by mr kyan yet the advances wore made two years before the metropoll 0 tan securities company was organized ii i follows therefore that the metropolitan 1 securities company having been formed i of several companies the money of tnese . several companies was used to discharge t the obligation of an individual company c accepting mr ryan's statement as accu % rate s if this money was paid out for the ben . efit of the property of a company why :â€¢ was such a discharged liability carried oflfl 3 the books as an asset â– why too was the expenditure entered on the books o the metropolitan securities â€¢ company as the purchase price of tneh 3 wall and cortland streets ferries fl when all but 250,000 of the 965,000 wenth into the pockets of the participants m tn - deal ; what is mr ryan's explanation of bis - action m voting to approve the purchase " of the railway for 800,000 ftvhen he knew a i continued on 2d page 4th column i weather indications ii(m Chicago and vicinity â€” in fi ht creasing cloudiness tuesday prob \\ ably showers at night or wednes v.w day rising temperature winds shift lent is over s |[ w i and the competent worker out of em ployment will now lend additional en ergy to his efforts to land a position this can best be accomplished by the use of an examiner situ ation wanted ad and the services of the examiner em ployment exchange if you are a competent 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